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Cliff Altemare

Senior Systems Engineer

Mr. Altemare has more than 33 years of experience in the design and development of embedded systems and products. This design experience includes over 20 years in the medical device industry and virtually all device life-cycle phases from proof-of-concept feasibility, design input development, product development, verification and validation testing, compliance testing, FDA submission support, product launch support, and sustaining engineering. Roles ranging from technical lead to systems engineering to project manager. Mr. Altemare’s responsibilities have included architecture and requirements development, electrical circuit design, systems integration, verification and compliance testing support, and project and task management.

Skills Summary

  • Systems Engineering for Complex Devices
  • Project Management, Cross-disciplinary teams
  • Requirements and Architecture Development
  • Systems Integration
  • Design Verification and Validation (V&V)
  • Risk Management (ISO 14971)
  • Compliance Support
    • Key standards: 60601-1, 60601-1-2,
      60601-1-8, 62304, 80601-2-74

Professional History

Position Summary: CMD MedTech develops products for the medical device and healthcare industries, with a focus on software. Mr. Altemare provides systems engineering, project management and product development leadership support to clients.

Robotic Ultrasound Assistant System. Mr. Altemare provided electrical and compliance engineering support for the development of a robotic ultrasound assistant system. Mr. Altemare worked define an electrical architecture, develop and indicator and interconnect circuit board assembly, and determine key compliance standards and clauses for the system.

Respiratory Humidifier Device. Mr. Altemare continues to provide project management and systems and electrical engineering support for a respiratory humidifier device. Current efforts include evaluating and updating the device to the latest particular and 60601-1 third edition standard series along with supporting sustaining engineering activities.

Breast Biopsy System. Mr. Altemare provided systems engineering support for the development of a breast biopsy system. Mr. Altemare worked to capture stakeholder needs and customer needs and translate those needs into system requirements using the Jama Connect requirements management tool.

Robotic Eating Assistant System. Mr. Altemare provided electrical engineering support for the development of a robotic eating assistant system. Mr. Altemare redesigned a couple circuit board assemblies to fix some component obsolescence and availability issues. This effort included testing to confirm equivalent system functionality.

Publications

Zheng, Bing, Altemare, Cliff, Anwar, Sohel “Fault Tolerant Steer-By-Wire Road Wheel Control System”
2005 ACC (American Control Conference) Paper

Patents (Pending)

Clifford Altemare Jr, Bing Zheng, “Distributed steering by wire control using time-triggered protocol
communication”, U.S. Patent 6,862,507, March 01, 2005.

Roger Joseph Cook, Alan Kline Jeffery, Hassan Arghavani-Badrabadi, Raymond Jack Mohr, Clifford David
Altemare, Jr, “System and method for controlling vehicle sliding door”, U.S. Patent 5,708,338, January 13,
1998.

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